Ten years to the week after they made it up to the championship

Ten years ago they went to (participated in) the final/championship.
Now, practically in the same week of the year, they've lost in the preliminary rounds.

EDIT: I like the
(well within a week of it)
of Nona's.

The lost the first game on the 10th anniversary (well within a week of it) of the date that they first made it to the championship.

Hi.

Got the gist of it, but still can't seem to grasp the function of the preposition "to." Could you come up with a few other examples with "to" meaning what it means here?

Much appreciated.

Hiro

to the week=well within a week of it
as Nona told you
or
within the approximation of a week
It's an idiom.

see:
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=19759&dict=CALD

Ten years to the week after they made it up to the championship, they lost the first game in the preliminary.

I think after is out of place, or at least makes the text heavier.
IT would be much clearer with that.

Ten years to the week that they made i

After is fine, this is how this idiom generally works:

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Five years, to the week, after German boots had hit the cobblestones
of Prague, and the solar plexus of the world, the Czechoslovak
Government ordered its people to join, in "an armed uprising," the
approaching "Army of Liberation."

Hi Marius

Be that as it may, would it not be easier wth "that"?

idiomatic?
idiot idiom;)

Oh, okay. Got both of you, Marius and Nona! It's like "Ten years (to the week) after they made it up to the championship, ...." Had this feeling somehow "the week" and "after they ..." were linked close together.

Many thanks, and have a good one.

Hiro

Sendai, Japan

It is ten years from now -- plus minus not more than one week -- that we played final in the championships.But now we have lost for the first time.